FRONT YARD LANDSCAPING IDEAS

The front garden of your house is the first impression that others get from your home and also from your living style. Your front yard expresses your taste as well as your personality. The first thing you should see is that your garden design ideas should be in line with the architectural style of your home, whether contemporary or traditional.

Regardless of the size of your front yard, the landscaping needs to be in the right proportion to each other and to match and complement the scale of the house. If large trees are planted in the front yard, this can overshadow the house.

Sometimes ornamental trees are planted to hide certain parts of the house as privacy screens. Sometimes, however, the trees should be felled at a height that emphasizes the real character and style of your home.

A small path or walkway should lead to the house and line both sides of the path with bright flowering plants such as bellflowers, anemones or other flowers to your liking. You can plant decorative creepers next to the house as these creepers climbing the side walls of the house make a living statement. The front garden landscape looks well-trimmed with lawns only if it is maintained regularly.

Otherwise, you can replace the grass with a stone courtyard or wide sidewalks and border beds and plant snapdragons, daisies, pansies or chrysanthemums. In small front gardens, the ground may be covered with white pebbles or pea-gravel. Whatever you do, make sure you've cared for the front yard for a nice, neat look.